Meier Unveils New Name, Preview List
A reader alerted us to the fact that a new billboard is up on the side of the Richard Meier design overlooking Prospect Park. Turns out everyon’s had the name wrong all along. Rather than One Prospect Park, it appears to be going by On Prospect Park (sounds more like a new TV show). There’s…
A reader alerted us to the fact that a new billboard is up on the side of the Richard Meier design overlooking Prospect Park. Turns out everyon’s had the name wrong all along. Rather than One Prospect Park, it appears to be going by On Prospect Park (sounds more like a new TV show). There’s even a website where, if you’ve got well over a $1,000 a foot to spend, you can sign up to be on the building’s preview list.
I’m not sure if anyone on this posting list lives anywhere near this monstrosity, but it is going to destroy the neighborhood’s charm in one fell swoop. I have no problem with enormous buildings, but Mr Meier is not even making an attempt to match the motif which we all love and reside within. I’m all for expansion and growth, but this is not the artistic formula we were hoping for. Bye bye neighborhood, I’ll miss you when this POS is finished.
More renderings in the ad in Sunday’s “Key”.
http://www.panix.com/~steveo/meier/
Anon-
When the site first went up, there was a link at the end of the Flash presentation which pop-upped a form.
But you’re right, they took it out. I guess their list is big enough now?
Anon-
When the site first went up, there was a link at the end of the Flash presentation which pop-upped a form.
But you’re right, they took it out. I guess their list is big enough now?
Anon-
When the site first went up, there was a link at the end of the Flash presentation which pop-upped a form.
But you’re right, they took it out. I guess their list is big enough now?
It is pretty funny that On Prospect Park isn’t on Prospect Park. It is on Eastern Parkway and on Grand Army Plaza. Great views of the park, but that’s about it.
This is clearly the most exciting development going on in Brooklyn at present.
It will be at LEAST $1000 per square foot for sure. The Meier building in Manhattan sold for a minimum of $2,500 per square foot, which was twice as high as the highest price condos at the time. There’s been a lot of press about his buildings in NYC, and disgruntled owners. The Meier buildings have restrictions on window treatments/curtains – i.e. you can’t have any. Because the exterior of the building must look uniform with all those big glass windows. They don’t want pink curtains on one floor and orange venetian blinds on another floor. Plus the monthly service charge in the Manhattan building is, get this, $4,000 per month. It started at $2K per month then they doubled it.
Okay if you can’t build a big building on the grandest plaza in Brooklyn, then where can you? Is the arch better served by a parking lot? Given the size and height of the other buildings on the GAP anything much smaller would look silly. If you want to downsize some areas you have to allow growth elsewhere. (Well maybe not all would agree, but I think better density in the center than sprawl at the edges).